Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.https://twitter.com/louisemensch/status/1015775582263627776 …
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@Plinz Would M in IT like to listen to W in IT now? We have something to say! There is something VERY important that requires input and work from everyone. It brings values into computation, and computation into values. Can we all work together please?https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-need-computational-pragmatics-now-anne-cregan/ …1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes -
I am willing to listen to you as a human being with a mind and integrity and intellectual agency, not as a member of a group defined by sexual organs. Group minds limit the rational autonomy of their members and thus arguments tend to lead nowhere useful.
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Thankyou, that was exactly what I wanted. I leveraged the debate to gain attention but the point is that the "female" principle of empathy/love & "male" principle of rationality must be integrated effectively if AI is to serve us well. Don't leave human values out of computation
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I think that human values are insufficient to run a modern society at scale, i.e. beyond the communal mode.
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Then we have no choice but to improve them. What other choice is there? We have the technology to execute globally now so new possibilities abound. We must at least try to do the best we can, even if it is not enough. Why do you think they are insufficient? What could we do?
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I think that human values are expressions of preferences for policies that we have independently of the results of these policies. The decisions that need to be made to get human civilization to survive the next century are probably horrible.
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That may well be true. Effective altruism requires some tough choices, as there is always an Opportunity Cost. Like everyone, I want to save boys stuck in caves, but there are people out there starving: what's the optimal allocation of resources? https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
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Effective Altruism leads to some counterintuitive outcomes. For instance, if we optimize for the total number of quality human life hours, most of these might be in the future, and require to dramatically reduce the current population. I find it difficult to follow these ethics.
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This seems a bit extreme. We can obviously impose constraints to prevent such things if we feel this is not the right way to go overall. The point is, these questions need to be considered, negotiated and the outcomes implemented before AI goes much further, lest we regret it.
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